Chapter III. Obstacles to Voluntary Action

WE have seen that we are responsible only for those actions which are performed with knowledge or advertence and freedom of choice. Whatever tends to prevent or lessen advertence, or to restrict liberty, will tend to diminish our responsibility. Ignorance affects advertence, fear and violence influence freedom of choice, and concupiscence influences both. Something must now be said on each of these causes which affect the voluntariness and imputability of our actions.

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Human Acts Obstacles to Voluntariety Ignorance Kinds of ignorance

Cited by 2 passages

Koch–Preuss, Volume I: Morality, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Morality, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Chapter I: The Subject of Morality—Man as a Rational Creature Endowed with Free-Will, Section 7: Obstacles to Voluntary Action, ¶ 14
Koch–Preuss, Volume I: Morality, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Morality, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Chapter V: The Object of Morality—Human Acts, Section 2: Imputability of Human Acts, ¶ 13

Within this chapter

Section I. Ignorance
Section II. Concupiscence
Section III. Fear
Section IV. Violence